hi A.L.M.Buxey@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
hi, ...makes me wonder what happens if/when they need to change the IP address of go.microsoft.com many many people have already been burnt by the hardcoding of addresses/IPs into their applications.
thats the point. its not the ip which is hardcoded. its the fqdn which is extempted from being lookud up in the local hosts-file. DaveK is absolutely right with his expressions about this behaviour. i neither do believe this is an attempt to prevent some malware from interrupting ms-autoupdate. you see ... even microsoft would never be that shortsighted!!! (errm ... at least i hope so) virtual